General News

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/0604-links-incitement-rife-in.htmlFrom Ian: Incitement rife in Palestinian textbooks In almost every study conducted by researchers looking into incitement in Palestinian textbooks, materials have been found which breach the Palestinian Authority’s pledges to halt anti-Israel incitement in […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-do-people-ignore-or-deny-farhud.htmlThe 1941 Farhud, coming as it did seven years before Israel was established, shatters the myth of peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs, explained Rabbi Andrea Zanardo to his Brighton congregation:   Ask anyone what […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/0603-links-pt2-bds-new-face-on-old-hate.htmlFrom Ian: Prof. Phyllis Chesler: This bigoted radical does not deserve a “feminist artist” award [Angela] Davis experienced her first visit to “Palestine” (with other “scholars of color”) as a “nightmare . . . the wall, the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/hamas-arrests-five-presidential-guards.html Fatah media reports that Hamas arrested five members of the Presidential Guard for “collaborating” with Palestinian Authority that it claims it is unified with. On Wednesday morning, Hamas reportedly arrested Mohammed Ghazi Khitab, Isaac […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/hundreds-attend-funeral-of-holocaust.htmlFrom Miriam Goodman on Facebook: Now this is Israel…and her people! Following an announcement that there was no minyan (quorum) to accompany Holocaust survivor Fernand Pavel Klitz, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, hundreds of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/0603-links-pt1-israel-criticized-for.htmlFrom Ian: Charles Krauthammer: Israel Criticized for Declining Invitation to National Suicide This seems a gratuitous provocation. Sanders hardly made Israel central to his campaign. He did call Israel’s response in the 2014 Gaza war […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/bds-leaders-whine-about-left-wing-peace.htmlFrom MEMRI: Palestinian BDS Operatives: Activities of US Peace Groups Are Destroying Anti-Normalization Efforts Gaza BDS activist Haidar Eid said that there was resentment among BDS activists toward Palestinian authorities for allowing American peace groups […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/good-news-friday-170/After all the bad news of this week we desperately need some good news to lift our spirits, so here is my latest Good News Friday installment. With all the hypocrisy and venom that is […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-bicyclists-jews-and-queen-elizabeth.html One of the cartoons winning an award in Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest There was a joke that Jews told each other during the Holocaust: An antisemite claimed that the Jews had caused the war; […]